HB 1468 — An Act amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, in Pennsylvania Liquor Stores, further providing for sales by Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.

PRINTER'S NO.    1730

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 1468
                                                Session of
                                                  2025

     INTRODUCED BY SHUSTERMAN, HILL-EVANS, BRENNAN, M. JONES,
        SANCHEZ, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ AND CIRESI, MAY 14, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, MAY 15, 2025


                                     AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An
 2      act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and
 3      brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating and
 4      changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and
 5      restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,
 6      consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding
 7      in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic
 8      liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the
 9      persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and
10      duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing
11      for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,
12      for the payment of certain license fees to the respective
13      municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain
14      nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure
15      without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;
16      providing for local option, and repealing existing laws," in
17      Pennsylvania Liquor Stores, further providing for sales by
18      Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.
19      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20   hereby enacts as follows:
21      Section 1.    Section 305(b) of the act of April 12, 1951
22   (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, amended July 15, 2024
23   (P.L.700, No.57) and July 17, 2024 (P.L.924, No.86), is amended
24   to read:
25      Section 305.     Sales by Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.--* * *
26      (b)     Every Pennsylvania Liquor Store shall sell liquors,
 1   including wine and ready-to-drink cocktails, at wholesale to
 2   hotels, restaurants, clubs, and railroad, pullman and steamship
 3   companies licensed under this act; and ready-to-drink cocktails
 4   to distributors and importing distributors that hold a ready-to-
 5   drink cocktail permit; and, under the regulations of the board,
 6   to pharmacists duly licensed and registered under the laws of
 7   the Commonwealth, and to manufacturing pharmacists, and to
 8   reputable hospitals approved by the board, or chemists. Sales to
 9   licensees shall be made at a price that includes a discount of
10   [ten] fifteen per centum from the retail price; except that
11   special order sales to licensees authorized in subsection (a)
12   shall not be subject to the [ten] fifteen per centum discount.
13   The board may sell to registered pharmacists only such liquors
14   as conform to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, the
15   National Formulary, or the American Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia.
16   The board may sell at special prices under the regulations of
17   the board, to United States Armed Forces facilities which are
18   located on United States Armed Forces installations and are
19   conducted pursuant to the authority and regulations of the
20   United States Armed Forces. All other sales by such stores shall
21   be at retail, except that incentives, such as coupons or
22   discounts on certain products, may be offered to unlicensed
23   customers of the board as provided under sections 207(m) and
24   493(24)(ii)(B). A person entitled to purchase liquor at
25   wholesale prices may purchase the liquor at any Pennsylvania
26   Liquor Store upon tendering cash, check or credit card for the
27   full amount of the purchase. For this purpose, the board shall
28   issue a discount card to each licensee identifying such licensee
29   as a person authorized to purchase liquor at wholesale prices.
30   Such discount card shall be retained by the licensee. The board

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 1   may contract through the Commonwealth bidding process for
 2   delivery to wholesale licensees at the expense of the licensee
 3   receiving the delivery. In addition, the board shall establish a
 4   program under which wholesale licensees are provided a discount
 5   if the licensee picks up its purchases at board-specified
 6   locations, including its warehouse. The board may set whatever
 7   parameters that it deems appropriate, including the amount of
 8   the discount or discounts and minimum purchase requirements.
 9      * * *
10      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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